Tax office spends public money on union-busting
by a PCS representative The revelations on 13 November of a union-busting plot at the heart of HMRC should come as no surprise to all socialists and students of trade union ...
Smith Commission: no more apologies
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson The morning after the night of the referendum, Cameron left Downing Street to promise to keep the vow to the Scottish people ...
Trident moves centre stage
by David McKenzie, Scrap Trident Coalition In the early days of the Yes campaign, I recall having sometimes to argue for a place for UK nukes within the list of critical ...
Scottish trade unions’ Bhopal solidarity visit
by Eurig Scandrett, UCU Scotland and Scottish Friends of Bhopal Thirty years ago, the world’s worst corporate crime happened in Bhopal in central India. An insecticide ...
Socialist Cuba doing the heavy lifting in Ebola crisis
by Bill Bonnar While the world rallies to support the countries suffering the from the Ebola epidemic and Lord Bob Geldof and his tax dodging, self-publicising friends plug ...
The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago
by Alan Bissett The No vote in the referendum in September was truly devastating to those of us who voted Yes. We felt it as yet another blow to social justice—to ...
A people before profit Scotland is the spearhead of change
by Ken Ferguson At the heart of the broad vibrant Yes campaign, which culminated with a massive 45 per cent vote in September’s independence referendum, was the ...
No more business as usual politics post-referendum
by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member As commentators variously try to make sense of Scotland’s post-referendum landscape, it is becoming ever ...
Defy all cuts: set No Cuts budgets, axe the Council Tax, tax the rich
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Councils across Scotland are poised to wield the knife to jobs and local services in a renewed round of municipal ...
Independence alliance or SNP dalliance
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Radical Independence Campaign conference this weekend takes place within earshot of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronation ...
